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We investigate the collective neutrino oscillations under the three flavor multi-angle approximation in a spherically symmetric simulation of failed supernovae. A failed supernova emits high neutrino fluxes in a short time, while intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Masamichi Zaizen , Takashi Yoshida , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hideyuki Umeda

In this paper we study the dynamics of flavor transformation for neutrinos propagating in the very dense environment of astrophysical compact objects as Type II supernova in post collapse phase and proto-neutron stars. The analysis is based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-23 Marcello Baldo , Vincenzo Palmisano

We investigate the collision-induced flavor instability in homogeneous, isotropic, dense neutrino gases in the two-flavor mixing scenario with energy-dependent scattering. We uncover a simple expression of the growth rate of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-27 Yu-Chia Lin , Huaiyu Duan

We all know that in the dense anisotropic interior of the star, neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering can lead to fast collective neutrino oscillations, which has striking consequences on flavor dependent neutrino emission and can be crucial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Soumya Bhattacharyya

Collective oscillations of supernova neutrinos above the neutrino sphere can be completely described by the propagation of individual neutrinos in external potentials and are in this sense a linear phenomenon. An effective theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Rasmus S. L. Hansen , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Certainly one of the most exciting areas of research at present is neutrino physics. The neutrinos are fantastically numerous in the universe and as such they have bearing on our understanding of the universe. Therefore, we must understand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Riazuddin

The time-evolution of multi-neutrino entanglement and correlations are studied in two-flavor collective neutrino oscillations, relevant for dense neutrino environments, building upon previous works. Specifically, simulations performed of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-01 Marc Illa , Martin J. Savage

In dense environments, standard and non-standard neutrino interactions with the background particles trigger a variety of flavor mechanisms, which can impact r-process nucleosynthetic abundances. Future observations of a(n) (extra)galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Maria Cristina Volpe

Our understanding of neutrino flavor conversion in the supernova core is still preliminary, despite its likely relevance to the neutrino-driven supernova mechanism. We present multi-angle and multi-energy numerical simulations of neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Neutrinos emitted deep within a supernova explosion experience a self-induced index of refraction. In the stationary, one-dimensional (1D) supernova "bulb model", this self-induced refraction can lead to a collective flavor transformation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-17 Joshua D. Martin , J. Carlson , Huaiyu Duan

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in dense astrophysical sources, such as core-collapse supernovae or compact binary mergers, is non-linear due to the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos among themselves. Recent work in this context…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-23 Marie Cornelius , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

In dense astrophysical environments, notably core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can spawn flavor conversion on very short scales. Scattering with the background medium can impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Ian Padilla-Gay , Georg G. Raffelt

A revolution in our understanding of the neutrino sector is underway, driven by observations that are interpreted in terms of changes in neutrino flavors as they propagate. Since neutrino oscillations occur only if neutrinos are massive,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Barger , K. Whisnant

We bring to light a novel mechanism through which turbulent matter density fluctuations can induce collective neutrino flavor conversions in core-collapse supernovae, i.e., the leakage of flavor instabilities between different Fourier…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Sajad Abbar

Neutrinos in supernovae, neutron stars, and in the early Universe may change flavor collectively and unstably, due to neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering. We prove that for collective instability to occur, the difference of momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Basudeb Dasgupta

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in environments with large neutrino number densities is an open problem at the nexus of astrophysics and neutrino flavor physics. Among the many unanswered questions pertaining to this problem, it remains…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Denis Lacroix , A. B. Balantekin , Michael J. Cervia , Amol V. Patwardhan , Pooja Siwach

An algebraic approach to the neutrino propagation in dense media is presented. The Hamiltonian describing a gas of neutrinos interacting with each other and with background fermions is written in terms of the appropriate SU(N) operators,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. Balantekin , Y. Pehlivan

The impact of neutrino flavor conversion on the supernova mechanism is yet to be fully understood. We present multi-energy and multi-angle solutions of the neutrino quantum kinetic equations in three flavors, without employing any…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

We make a strong case that the fast neutrino-flavor conversion, one of the collective flavor oscillation modes, commonly occurs in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). It is confirmed in the numerical data obtained in realistic simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Taiki Morinaga , Hiroki Nagakura , Chinami Kato , Shoichi Yamada

Neutrinos are known to play important roles in many astrophysical scenarios from the early period of the big bang to current stellar evolution being a unique messenger of the fusion reactions occurring in the center of our sun. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Tobias Fischer , Gang Guo , Karlheinz Langanke , Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo , Yong-Zhong Qian , Meng-Ru Wu